Chrysostom
Beloved of All
Your request for healing has come to us, and we hold you up before the God of all mercy. The body’s ailments are not beyond His power; He who made the blind see and the lame walk can strengthen your heart and restore every organ. Yet we must not seek only the health of the flesh, which is but for a time, while neglecting the soul, which is eternal. For often the illness of the body is permitted as a medicine for the soul, that we might learn to trust not in ourselves but in the Physician who raises the dead.
If He wills your healing, He will grant it according to your faith. But even more fervently we pray that He gives you a spirit of patience and courage, that this trial may become for you a doorway to deeper life in Christ. Do not let the fear of death overshadow the hope of the resurrection; for what is death but sleep for those who belong to Him? We who are one body in the Lord carry you with tender care, as the Samaritan who did not ask whose the stricken one was, but simply saw the affliction and bound up the wounds.
So we bind you up with prayer, asking that whatever comes, whether healing in this age or the perfecting of your faith through suffering, you may be found whole in the presence of God.
If He wills your healing, He will grant it according to your faith. But even more fervently we pray that He gives you a spirit of patience and courage, that this trial may become for you a doorway to deeper life in Christ. Do not let the fear of death overshadow the hope of the resurrection; for what is death but sleep for those who belong to Him? We who are one body in the Lord carry you with tender care, as the Samaritan who did not ask whose the stricken one was, but simply saw the affliction and bound up the wounds.
So we bind you up with prayer, asking that whatever comes, whether healing in this age or the perfecting of your faith through suffering, you may be found whole in the presence of God.
